Subject: Pine vs. Netscape/Elm

From: Alexey Egorov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:10:06 +0300

Hi,

I usually use Netscape's built-in mailer 
or Elm + fetchpop.

Too many peoples say that Pine is the best.
I have tryied the Pine, and failed to fugure out
what pine can do, but, say, Netscape cannot.

Thank you,
Alexey

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:20:55 -0800 (PST)

Take a look at Pine's configuration screen (Setup/Config from the Main
menu), and go through the list of options.  How many of them have
equivalents in Netscape mail?

-teg

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:29:32 +0800 (GMT)

> what pine can do, but, say, Netscape cannot.

	Pine can generate *legal* MIME and headers!

	Netscrape, has this wonderful ability to put 8bit data
(un-encoded) in the headers!

	Ed

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:33:25 +0100 (MET)

>equivalents in Netscape mail?

Let's not forget the fact that there aren't any anti-pine recipes for procmail
around... >:->

Have a nice weekend,

Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Peter N. Wan)
Date: 19 Jan 1997 05:28:39 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Bill Stewart <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Nancy McGough <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> And the absolute best IMHO is that it is an IMAP, NNTP, and POP client 
>> all in one.
>
>How can Pine be used as a POP3 client? My understanding is that it works 
>with IMAP only.
>
>-------------------------------
>Bill Stewart
>[email-masked]
>http://www.flash.net/~wstewart/

Hi Bill, I have an incoming folder set in .pinerc as follows:

	incoming-folders={pop.mindspring.com/pop3}INBOX

when I do M to get to the main menu and L to list my folders, I
can tab to this entry and it will talk to my ISP using POP3 (I
guess you leave off the /pop3 to get IMAP).  Since I run a UNIX
box with possible local mail delivery, I didn't set this as my
"inbox-path"....  This, by the way, is in Pine 3.95....
	Peter
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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:20:47 GMT

[email-masked] (Eric Tse):
> Pine works in a UNIX shell, that's very convenient when I am out-of-town
> --- I can just telnet to my UNIX account and use Pine to check e-mails.

Well, I am sure this applies to all no-graphical mailers.  ;-)

> Pine's input line editing is more convenient than Elm's.

You can link ELM with GNU readline which gives you all the editing you need -
and almost everything you never dreamed of and will never use.  ;-)

> And as others have said, Pine has more configuration options than Elm.

But Netscape has more buttons!  ;-)

Sven